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Boulder County to buy conservation easement over Superior open space parcel

By John Fryar

Times-Call staff writer

Posted:
08/12/2014 05:49:32 PM MDT

Updated:
08/12/2014 05:50:01 PM MDT

Boulder County will spend $125,800 buying a conservation easement to prevent any future development on a 6.37-acre property the Town of Superior is buying west of McCaslin Boulevard.

The Board of County Commissioners approved the purchase Tuesday. Superior will apply the county money towards the town's $680,000 acquisition of the property at 414 S. McCaslin Blvd., county land officer Mel Stonebraker said.

The property, being bought from current owner Shan Shan Chu, has been annexed to Superior but not platted. It is southeast of the original Superior town site and adjacent to the county-owned open space on its southeast.

If not preserved by the town's purchase, changing the zoning to an open space designation and the county's acquisition of the conservation easement, "commercial uses are likely to be ultimately approved for this parcel," Stonebraker told the commissioners.

"Development of this parcel would significantly impact the user experience on the Coal Creek Trail and significantly degrade outstanding scenic views along McCaslin Boulevard," Stonebraker said.

He said the parcel now contains a 2,190-square-foot house and a couple of small structures, all of which would be demolished once the town completes its acquisition. The county's conservation easement would extinguish all development rights and prohibit any new structures from being built there.

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Stonebraker said Superior's staff has told the Town Board that the parcel has a high priority for preservation as open space because of the approval of the future Superior Town Center development to the east.

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